Photography trains us to hunt for the decisive moment — the peak of action, the perfect light, the thing happening. This class is interested in everything else. Over six weeks, we’ll build a practice around transitional time: the hour before anyone arrives, the hour after everyone leaves, the light that doesn’t have a name yet. Not emptiness as absence, but as a different kind of fullness. Some of the most charged images ever made were made of nothing in particular happening at all.

Each week you’ll receive a temporal prompt — a time of day, a condition of light, a quality of waiting — and make photographs in response. We’ll look closely at photographers who have made this their territory: Elina Brotherus, Tereza Zelenkova, Joanna Piotrowska, Newsha Tavakolian, and Anastasia Samoylova, alongside Todd Hido and Hiroshi Sugimoto. Critique will focus on what your images are doing quietly — what they hold, what they withhold, what they’re actually about. You’ll leave with a body of work made in the margins of your own life, and a new relationship to the time you used to think wasn’t worth photographing.